#russia

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#cause #degree #more #proletariat #revolution

People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#because #fifty #lived #long #often

If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space. ↗

— James Lovelock

#been #cold #cold war #hadn #into

Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#central #chinese #completely #different #fluently

I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#i #main #make #next #olympics

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated. ↗

— Christa McAuliffe

#early #elementary #elementary school #first #i

The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917. ↗

— Kelly Miller

#event #great #russia #second

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#because #closed #down #german #get

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#dynamic #especially #into #kind #orchestra

Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#made #never #russia #spain #suffer